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Purpose
Principles
- Consists of the main motivators within your life–the reasons why you wake up in the morning.
- Guides life decisions, influences behavior, shapes goals, offers a sense of direction, and creates meaning.
- Having purpose means that you live with integrity
- What you want to share to the world; how you use your passion.
- ex) Your efforts pay dividends to other people; to contribute to the well-being of others.
Benefits
- People who tend to consider both personal and prosocial interests do better than those who are selfishly motivated
- Gives us Motivation
Cultivation
- Consider finding a role model to observe and understand the importance of purpose, and seeing that you can do something similar
- Reflect on how the work you’re already doing can make a positive change in society, how we can change our current work to enhance its connection to our core values, and finding inspiration in a purposeful role model
- Requires extensive soul searching
- Gravestone Technique
- Odyssey Plan
- The Ideal Ordinary Week
Levels
There are different levels of understanding purpose; when building a building with bricks, you can think that you are:
- laying bricks
- building a church
- or building the house of God
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